Donnell - From the Whores to the Oars!

Episode Date: August 28, 2020

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My man, Jitrite a real deal, man, like, when it's time to go, you know, you got to, you know, choose your flow, you can't flow with somebody else and get what you're trying to get for yourself, you know, you got to get what you need, and like, you know, those that's in greed, you know, like, well, hey, you know, like, pat me on the back, and pat my feet, and tell me, say, hey, man, happy, go get your treats, you know, and I'll see you when you get back. Listen, man, and that's so funny you say I seem seem to get back because i've been in the bubble for a month and one of the two things i miss when i'm gone is you and my son but i've been in a safe environment with some good people inside this bubble what type of people do you need to be around

during a pandemic where everything is so chaotic? Responsible. Responsible. Responsible. Idiocy is nonexistent. Idiotic? No, bye. See you later.

I don't need one of that. We're not here to play games. I mean, we're real with this right here. This is life or death. You know, like, get what you want. Get what you're supposed to get and all that you don't get, but it wasn't meant for you. It was meant for someone else. And like you had to accept your truth for what it is, man. You can't just demand mine to add with yours

and get what you want and forget about my flow. You just like, I mean, that goes for the flow beneath me, the flow over me, and the ones in between. I mean, we had to all squeeze in here to get together. We all can get together and get this clean, but it can't do it by myself. I mean, I need help out here, just like how he sent them to me. I mean, like, I can send my blessings back, you know. But, dog, come on out here and act like you care, you know, about yourself first.

See, self-preservation, how I learned, whether it's the first group, Lord and nation. Self-preservation when i learned whether it's the first law of the nation self-preservation there it is right there and if you can't do that preserve for yourself but like you know on your own and then you build your empire like that you stretch out but there ain't no need to like trying to force something up in here because it ain't gonna work the way it's supposed to work you're gonna have improprieties yeah a whole lot of stuff gonna go wrong and you're gonna have improprietors yeah a whole lot of stuff don't go wrong and you're gonna wonder like what happened well you didn't have the right responsible responsible people where they should have been that's why i said that that is

responsibility that's the key word and acceptance instead you got to go behind that you got to accept the truth for what it is man you can't stretch the true father untrue if it's untrue uh you got to be truthful with it to get it to be a truth take the hunt waiting in front of the truth again like you might make it but if you leave the un in front of the truth question well how can you go anywhere you want you i'm going to be right get right always dropping the jewels from the streets to the creeks from the hoods to the woods from the horse to the oars hey there it is right there to the head the o o r e or or is the key solution to this pollution there it is yo the company just keeping us safe. Yo, man. I'm trying not to interrupt you.

Oh! Oh! Oh! I'm trying not to interrupt you. I'm trying not to interrupt you. Yo, yo. I'm trying not to interrupt you. The Donnell Rawlings Show, live in your face.

Fuck y'all bitch ass niggas. You'll never take my place, niggas. Thank you. you know it's time for the Donnie Rawlings show today is a spiritual day. We took a river ride today. And the river is supposed to bring people to a peaceful place.

The river is supposed to make you feel relaxed. The river is supposed to make you feel Javance is supposed to make you feel Javance you smell like river water Did you shower? Did you shower? You straight off the river? Oh I might have to put subtitles on that I smell like you in the morning

How do you know how I smell in the morning? Cause you come and bust in through my room Like you don't know how to act. I don't come bust into your room. I get invited to your room. No, you don't. Never. Because I say it's time to get up because you want to sleep all day. We all know

that you need your beauty sleeper for 18 hours. How pretty do you want to be? I sleep for less than six hours a day, Donnell. I sleep for two hours a day. Make sure we thank our sponsors, Donnell. I ain't got time to do that. You do it.

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First off, you are on what we call What energy is that Javanta Like the new bubble energy You fresh into the bubble Yep fresh bubble energy Yeah we're two months How long we been here in Yellow Springs Just about that So we're used to the bubble

You're like a fucking happy kid Hell yeah You got a chance to get out of LA And now you're in the bubble And you just don't know what to do with yourself You're like a fucking happy kid right now. Hell yeah. You got a chance to get out of LA. Yep. And now you're in the bubble and you just don't know what to do with yourself. Oh, I do know what to do with myself. So our listeners may see. I can't hear anything in these crappy headphones. People were making fun of her headphones too.

Oh, look at that. Happy birthday. Okay. Oh, yay. Okay. So people aren't going to be making fun of you no more. They really making fun of your headphones? Yeah.

I can barely hear you right now. You can't hear me? I barely can hear you. I can hear the room, but I can't hear you through these headphones. Those are Jerry's headphones. He had those, right? Yeah. Shout out to Beats for hooking us up with these nice headphones.

Okay, back to you in the bubble. Yes, sir. How does it feel? It feels like this is so weird. After being here for two months, it's interesting because I've seen the different energies when they first come. When they first come, people are usually just like fucked up in the head. Yeah, it's shocking. It's shocking.

They got their fucking mask on you gotta you're supposed to wear your mask yeah but it's interesting to see the energy that people have when they first that first day the first day it's like oh i'm shocked what's going on don't call for me don't do this but then like the second day it's like they kind of like every day everybody comes here and they either have anxiety or they get really fucked up the first night. Oh, that's me almost every other night. When does it stop? When does it stop?

But it's... I'm so sad. Why are you sad? Because it's coming to an end for a while. Right, right. It's going to be... A break for a minute. It's going to be a break for a minute.

It's been a good run. We got to take a 10-day break. I think we're going to take a 10-day break and then we're going to be a break for a minute. It's been a good run. We got to take a 10-day break. I think we're going to take a 10-day break, and then we're going to back to it. But you're talking about an amazing way to end a run. Last week was incredible. Yeah. If you know me, if you know my history doing stand-up,

when we used to do the I'm Rich Bitch Tour, me, Charlie Murphy, and Bill Burr, I used to, my intro song was Hootie and the Blowfish Hold My Hand. Right. With a little love and some tenderness We'll take this war together We'll take it by the hand

You have a nice voice. And'll take it by the hand. You have a nice voice. And I want to, thank you. That's the first nice thing you ever said about me after you told everybody I got a regular face last week. See, but look at that attribute. You can sing, so it overshadows. I don't want to be able to sing. I want to be fine. Regular face.

I know, and I want $40 million. $40 million? So there's no chance of me being fine? But anyway, so if you ever saw that The Rich Bitch 2, I used to come out. It used to be weird for people to see me come out. People used to say that I looked like Huy the Blowfish. And I think they probably said that

because I used to smash a lot of white chicks. Oh, no, but you used to wear Those wide leg Those jeans With the belt Like the thick ass Brown belt Remember that

The buckle Yeah the buckle And the belt The buckle I was going through the buckle I had the buckle stage And you wore flares I wore flares

What was your favorite buckle What was the best buckle You ever had I don't know They were just like Big cowboy joints Like a big steer head. And I was going buckle crazy.

Like I was looking for buckles and buckles. If it was a, I went to buckles, the store, looking for more buckles. But I was a buckle dude. I was a buckle dude, wide leg pants guy. And I was on my hoodie shit. And last week, Darius Rucker comes to the goddamn summer camp. That was the highlight of the show when he came out. Oh, my God.

Yeah, and it's so weird because I've been coming out to that song almost the whole summer. I would mix up maybe a French Montana. I don't really mix up the intro songs much. So I was coming up to hold my hand and people was going crazy about it. And then just so happened, I got a shout out to Kate Quigley, who's no longer on the podcast, but it's not even a rumor anymore.

They're dating. Kate and Jerry's. And I just, and I knew that Kate was in Nashville and I was like, she's that close. I invited her to come just hang out and be a part of the bubble.

Because I know she's a nature bitch. She like to kayak and surfboard and all that type of stuff. And she told me that she was dating him and he wanted to come. And I was like, oh, my God. I was like this, oh, my God. Hootie, come here. And he came to the show. Yeah.

People were freaking the fuck out. Him just being backstage. Is that Hootie? Is that Hootie? All right. he came to the show. People were freaking the fuck out. Him just being backstage. Is that Hootie? They were like, you can hear now? See? Turn her up. Turn me up in my headphones.

It's number two. That's not the headphones. That's up there. Number two. Try that. Hello? Mic check. There you go. I can hear you. Hootie, you're going to get that right because i had a problem yeah keep going so he's backstage and like people are going fucking bananas and i did the intro my intro as i normally do hold my hand and uh went to slicing the room in half.

This is the funny thing. Darius Ruck would be far away going, he says to me, you better be funny, motherfucker. You know how... Where's the wine? Are y'all listening to my story? I am, but that's just weird.

We can't worry about it. Nothing is weird, man. Just let it go. I'm just gonna do it. Do what weird, man. Just let it go. I'm just going to do it. Do what? I'm going to fix the shot. Jesus. You're insane.

No, I'm not insane. This is a good time for a Hootie song. With a little love. Everyone thinks they're better than everyone else at everything. And some tenderness. I'm better than you, David. I don't think I'm better than you. All right, listen. And some tenderness Alright listen Black lives matter

White lives matter Do you look beautiful camera I care how I look I'm sorry That I give a fuck About how I look on camera Do you look beautiful now? It's It's whatever Like it's just weird Look at me

I look river-y I know We're fresh off the river It's not about Everyone knows you're beautiful Everyone knows you're beautiful It's not that Everyone knows

No he made a slick ass comment He's like Oh I think I'm better than you I don't think I'm better than you I'm just looking at the shot I have two eyes And I see that It's a better shot over there

Because we have All this natural light coming And you can eyes and I see that it's a better shot over there because we have all this natural light coming and you can see Donnell's face. It wasn't wide enough over there. Okay. Who wants that? Who wants that? I know. Are y'all fucking up nature right now? Are we supposed to be? We're fucking up

your Darius Rucker story. No, you can't fuck my story up. We fucking nature up. God damn it. Look, look, look, look what happened. We're acting like we're in Hollywood again. We're acting like we're in New York again. We came here and we just said it is for peace. And I'm saying sometimes you can get tired of nature.

We curse each other every other day. Every other day we curse each other out. But we're here to enjoy nature and enjoy the goddamn Darius Ruppers story. We only have so much. We don't have that many lights.

We don't have that much air. Back to my fucking story. So as a stand up you know when you're in your zone and you're getting ready to go perform the last thing you want

somebody to say to you is you better be funny. Right. And the last thing you'd want to hear that you is you better be funny right and the last thing you'd want to hear that from is a person that you grew up with but are the same age as him and i was like i was fanboying out it was fucking dirty as fuck and i almost had an opportunity to do something with him anthony anderson does this car karaoke thing or whatever um my agents called me they wanted me to it was gonna do something where

people gonna they was gonna say I was Darius Rucker one of those things that people like he thinks he's like people don't recognize him it's gonna be something funny didn't have opportunity to do that I was bummed up about it so for me to meet him I was like oh is Darius Rucker and for him to he was very going to audience I was like, oh shit, it's Darius Barker. And for him to, he was already going to the audience, he was like, hey motherfucker, you better be funny. I'm like, fuck you, that's a lot of pressure. And I'm like, motherfucker, I'm always funny. But I'm saying to myself, what if this is the day that I'm not funny?

That would be so fucked up. So I did my set. I had a good set. I've been consistent the whole summer. And I came out to hold my set. I had a good set. I've been consistent the whole summer. And I came out to hold my hand. And then at the end, I told DJ Trump, I said, I want you to play Hold My Hand as an outro. So he started playing Hold My Hand as an outro. And I started singing it.

And the audience wasn't really engaged in it that much at the beginning. And then I was like, and nobody in this motherfucker helped me sing this song. I said, it's not one nigga in this place that know the words of this song and all of a sudden you hear yesterday I saw you and he came up

I was like oh my god and then we went word for word I don't know fucking 25 years 20 years I still don't know all the words but I feel passionate about it. And then we shared a moment on stage. I posted it on my Instagram. It was a dope-ass fucking moment.

Everybody in the corner felt excited. All the people that were working in productions were excited because they'd been listening to me come out to this song like the fucking whole summer. So for me to be able to meet Darius Rucker, and I won't call it a performance, but to be able to share Darius Rucker and I won't call it a performance but to be able to share the stage with him it was awesome it was a performance

what are you talking about yeah it was a performance people like this you ain't no fucking old fake ass Darius Rucker I don't want to be that person but to be on stage with him it was dope as shit

everybody was excited and of course you know after we do the shows we go have a little after party oh yeah yeah they do right and kate told me a while um they were like no at the venue she was like he wants to play right you want to play guitar he hadn't played in a while he's been quarantined and dave had some

type of uh good a bullshit i don't know shit about guitars that was a nice guitar no I'm talking about the one in the green room oh okay oh yeah yeah so I grabbed the guitar he's like motherfucker what the fuck here he goes

Darius Rucker cursing me out again right the fuck I'm gonna do with this shit basically threw a fucking guitar in my face

so we get to the venue and he's still like he wants to play we get to a little small intimate setting ask David Byrne the real David Byrne who's a musician who's a magician And he's still like he wants to play. We get to a little small intimate setting. Ask David Byrne, the real David Byrne, who's a musician. Who's a magician?

Musician. I'm still kind of rattled from the river, man. The river was rough today. Yeah. And he got a guitar. And fucking Darius Rucker does three fucking songs in front of an audience of like 40 people and it was fucking magical. Can I ask you a question? Yeah.

Did you just say David Byrne? Yeah. Like the talking heads, David Byrne? No. No, David Byrne that's here. Oh, okay. Isn't that the guy's name from the talking heads?

It is. You're right. And you're right. But you're nicer about your right. You're not. No, it is. I say that for... I'm just gonna just woosah right now But you're nicer about your writing. You're not. No, it is. I say that for. I'm just going to just woosah right now.

You're going to what? Woosah. What do you mean? That means taking a deep breath and releasing. Okay. So the Talking Heads guy. And it's so funny you said that because David Byrne, the one we know, his Instagram is at the real David Byrne. I was like, as if there at the real David Byrne.

I was like, as if there is a fake David Byrne. And I didn't know about the talking head reference. So he's right about that. He's correct about it. So how was your last day on the river for 10 days? Today was amazing. It was different because we usually go on another river journey. And this day, the water's so shallow so you you're continuously having to get out of your canoe and then or your kayak rather not not

well you were yeah you were good i didn't see you get out you didn't get wet at all i didn't get wet at all yeah i was soaked i was the only one look Look at these feet. Yeah, you didn't get wet. But anyway, so it was fun. I had a good day. Y'all see? Look at that. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Look at that. That is a professional kayaker when you could be in a kayak and not get wet. It was a good day. How do you feel? This is your third day out here. I've never seen this motherfucker so happy, man. He got that motherfucker, his nose raped when he first got here.

I loved it because to be safe is great. And to be in a bubble, you know, to be around people that are taking it seriously and everyone's getting tested. But you were right. You talked about this before. For those who haven't listened to the podcast before, like, you know, when they test you, you get a band on. Right. And everyone's got the band on. And then you go to, everyone's the same people kind of going to different places. It's a very get a band on. Right. And everyone's got the band on. And then you go to, everyone's the same people

kind of going to different places. It's a very small group of people. Right. And when you get somewhere and you look at everyone's bands. Yeah, look at your wrist. Motherfuckers be trying to do fist bumps and shit. I'm like, you like, hey.

And I saw somebody without a band. I saw one person without a band, not inside anywhere, but the guy who was doing the food truck. And I was sitting there ordering and then I looked at his hand and he didn't have a band. He probably got a test. What food truck?

The one we had yesterday? Yeah, the tacos. No, not yesterday. Not yesterday. No, the tacos from the shack. Oh, yeah, that was Miguel. Isn't that Miguel? Yeah, that was Miguel.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. He just didn't have a band. Sometimes people don't wear the band, but you definitely notice it, and you start backing away. You're like, nice to meet you, Miguel. Yeah. And I'll be over here but after um you get into the groove of this it's like you don't want to fucking leave oh hell no it's like for what I really believe that it's

going to be a new wave of how people operate and I probably said it on the podcast before is that Hollywood I won't say it's going to be dead, but people are going to start creating their own pockets of Hollywood. Rogan is doing it. Austin isn't as remote as this place. Austin is kind of popping on the music side of it. He's doing that there. Dave is doing it here.

I think that that's going to be the new wave of people. It's going to be so hard to go back to how shit was normal. I don't want to live in a city anymore. I want to live in nature and just scale back. Yeah, man, it's fucked up. I want a pickup truck. I've never driven a pickup truck until this trip.

And it's like, you know, I understand why people have a pickup truck and whatever luxury car they're probably driving, but I definitely want one now. You gotta have a truck out here. You gotta have something four wheels drive what is that thing on the back the little knob thing that you pull shit you had a hitch yeah you gotta have a truck with a fucking hitch and a bitch in the back a hitch and a bitch it's so funny that's your new song that's a new single well a hitch in the bitch i like that no i, I like H-A-D.

I did not know what WAP meant. Y'all, okay. Everyone has heard WAP by Cardi B and Magna Salon. Well, you've been in the river, so you don't know. I don't even know what's going on in the world. Well, that's what's going on in the world. WAP. Wet-ass pussy. Wet-ass pussy.

Yeah. And I did not understand it because you posted a picture of you I just realized. Well that's what's going on in the world. Wet ass pussy. Wet ass pussy. Yeah. And I did not understand it because you posted a picture of you with natural perfect lighting. She brings a light to the river. You know that. Oh yeah. When I saw when she sat down and when that light wasn't directly in front of her. I was like somebody's probably get their ass chewed.

I knew she was gonna go crazy. Because every fucking episode her light is perfect my shit look ashy my shit look like i'm really in nature yo when i saw that light not on her i was like whoa so back to the thing i didn't know i saw your video your post on instagram yeah and i was like what the fuck is wop yeah what ass pussy and like i was in the river and my pussy was wet so i know that's what i'm saying he was sitting like your post on Instagram. Yeah. And I was like, what the fuck is WAP? Yeah. Wet ass pussy. And like, I was in the river and my pussy was wet,

so. I know, that's what I'm saying. He was sitting like, your pussy was on the river water, so it made sense. It doesn't really work for a guy. And I came up with an acronym

and my acronym, what did I say? H-A-D? H-A-D. Yeah, HAD. What's that? Hard ass dick.

Come on, two can play that acronym game. For the kids out there. What was the other one you had? You had another one. Shot in the foot. Or SA. What?

SAF. Shot ass foot. Oh, yeah. Shot ass foot. Because Tory Lanez. Oh, got shot ass foot. Yeah. SAF.

Yep. Megan Estani is really a hip hop artist now. She don't have an ankle. What part of her foot is gone? I know is wrong it's gotta be something's gotta be gone you don't get shot in the foot and like a 22 like a heel or something right maybe it was just grace i don't know she hasn't talked about like the actual day and they were people were talking that uh they were calling that's nature motorcycles people were talking about about that she was a snitch. Didn't she,

she said what happened and people were trying to call her a snitch for saying that. Yeah, but she only said it to like her, like on social media.

She didn't report him or she didn't. That's the same way as snitching. Is it though? Yeah. Well, then he should be arrested.

He should be in jail right now and he's not. So if it was on the books, if that night she reported it then of course he would have been taken into custody yeah why isn't he arrested exactly but i feel like if it was a white woman she'd be he'd be arrested oh my god it was why she'd be in court right now yeah he'd be in court facing a death penalty right now a week fucking later man but this week um, Dave called me the MVP this week.

Oh yeah, you put it down. We had so much fun. Yeah, you put it down. And I'm going to tell you, this was like, each week the show gets, I'm going to say better, but it's always a surprise. Last week, Chris Rock was here. This week, the fucking lineup was ridiculous. Crazy.

Moa Michelle, as always. Moa Ammer. Artie Fuqua. Will Sylvan. Fuck, who else? Tony Woods. Tony Woods. Bill.

Bill Burr. Kevin Hart. What's the rapper from Houston? Toby. Toby. Toby. Cypher Sounds.

Cypher Sounds. It was like goddamn four, four more damn five and fucked up it was it was it was

crazy but people people appreciate it I was surprised people didn't walk out cause sometimes in comedy you could give

people too much show yeah you know they like oh my god man when is this gonna be over

but where are they rushing to like this is the only thing that's happening it's the only thing popping but it was

just to fucking see a lineup like that in the goddamn corner field. Nobody being selfish. For the most part, everybody's stuck to their time. You did too. I did. I was proud of you.

I always stick to my time. I don't know about that. Is that true? No. Here's my thing. Lately, you have been. Here's my thing. If I ever go long, and I know this may sound crazy,

it's because I don't think that we've had enough show. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think we had enough show. Maybe everybody wasn't on that night or whatever. But it's not like being selfish. It's just like I feel like I always got to fucking try to take the show to whatever level I can. And then it's one thing to go long and be in whack.

Usually if I go long, that's the worst thing, man. When I used to go to the Laugh Factory a lot to see comedians that go long and dull. And it's like to keep on trying to search for that last laugh and it's never gonna fucking happen get the fuck off the stage it's over but what's the craziest thing you ever seen anyone do to get someone off the stage

throw something and it was me like a promoter you did it yeah like the sandman on Apollo oh yeah no throw something oh shit motherfucker who videotaped when I do take pictures somebody taking pictures uh somebody taking pictures yeah who the is that oh you see that pickup truck just drove by yeah yeah

yeah there was a white dude just took a picture your people you did you you're famous in my world yeah i threw white people love you i threw a cup at a that's funny so you promoted the show he was on the stage yeah Yeah. I've told motherfuckers, get the fuck off the stage. Like out loud? You were the host? No. I was just there.

Yo, 40 will tell you. We used to do that, man. Me and 40 used to be back. It was this club we used to go to in Brooklyn on Flatbush Avenue. And them motherfuckers used to stink it up, right? And me and 40s back there making noise and shit,

breathing hard. We'd go to the bar and do like this, like, come on! Like, you know that when you look like you falling asleep, we'd be like this, come on! Yeah, I can't stand that, man. If you not fucking doing, getting a job done, get the fuck off.

Yeah. But you ever get asked to get the fuck off the stage? I always do my time, but I've bombed before, of course, yeah. Yeah, it sucks to bomb. No one's ever flashed a light at me. I'm happy to just do my time and get the fuck out of there. Javante had a comedy career last year. Two shows.

It was more than two shows. It was two fucking shows. Have you ever brought her on the road and just randomly... What? Are you crazy? You missed my set. I went up at Ha Ha and it was really good. Remember that night and you were like, you shouldn't have told me.

Well, you should have told me, but I was scared to invite you because I didn't know how I was going to do but i actually did really well and that was recently because that when i had my stand-up career that was about 10 years ago do you have a snippet of this set i don't have a snippet but her stand-up career has been three shows more than three shows three three shows because you feel as though it's been three shows, Zana, because you were only a part of three shows. But I had to get up to that point. I had to go up.

The funniest thing was when she did the first time she went on, she was funny. I don't know if it was luck or anything. Oh, it can be sometimes. First time could be luck. She was funny. And then I was giving her some notes on the things to do and not to do in a short-lived career. And I said, whatever you do, don't talk about being pretty.

Right. Especially in New York, because it's going to, it's something like people with regular faces. Yeah. That might get upset. You know, I know it sounds weird. I know it sounds weird. No, that's true. And she didn't have to take the advice, but I just thought it was a good piece of advice.

And the next set, she talked about being totally everything we talked about. She totally went against it. And it was so funny. Well, I mean, I didn't go all the way against it. Basically, the joke was I didn't get hot till after college. But it was true. Oh, that's the word. You said hot?

Oh, God. I wore glasses. I had veneer. I had two fake teeth. Like, before I had, you know, I was shredded. Yeah, exactly. So that was the whole bit of the joke. Oh, no, but that's just, that's a hard one.

You didn't say hot. That's a hard one for an ugly crowd to take. I didn't get hot. Hot, you gotta. Now that I'm hot. Yeah, but then you gotta follow up some other shit. I think they just heard hot and it was over. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I took the L. And then she said they gave her the light. I didn't even hit the light. She said they gave me the light. She came off stage. She was like this. And I don't know if I said this. I've talked about this before.

I don't know on this platform. But she looked at me and she said, What do you do when they don't laugh? And she just started crying. I was terrified. What do you do when they don't laugh? And she just started crying. I was terrified. I was, I just didn't, I've never felt that feeling. Because with dance and when we audition, I audition with a thousand girls.

And, you know, the rejection is like right in your face. So it's either they say stay or please go or thank you. You know what I mean? So I'm accustomed to that type of rejection, but it's a whole nother ballgame when you do stand up. I commend, I respect the art so much because it just feels differently when you're up there bombing. And so.

And here's the funny thing, and this is before Me Too. Me Too wasn't invented yet, right? And then all the guys there was fucking listening to her crying. She was like, they was like, they was talking shit about me. Like, fuck him.

He a asshole. Yeah, because they were so mean to me. You were like, man, go hard or go home, son. Like, this ain't a place to be crying, son. I said that. That's your impression of me? Pretty good. That was a good one.

I said, go hard or go home. And I also told you, I said, if you're crying right now, you should fucking quit. It's better. I don't know. I'm a straight shooter, you know, especially when it comes to stand up. Because I know what it takes to get good. I know the dedication. I already know it's going to be a lot of rejection.

It's going to be a lot of bad nights. And if I don't tell a person the real deal, it's like, what the fuck? You know what I'm saying? And I'm saying, you always had other things going on. I think if you would've stuck with it, you probably would've got better at it. You weren't bad. It was just getting the rhythm, getting to know how it feels when they don't laugh.

Yeah, that shit does not feel good. That's the hardest part about stand-up is how people react when they don't get the reaction that they want. Yeah. And that's one thing that I say about when I watch Dave Chappelle.

Yeah. When I watch him perform, and it's not just him, but certain comics that can stay in the pocket. Yeah. Like me, I'm like rapid fire.

It's bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Over the summer, I don't know if you noticed but i kind of like brought my pace down just a little bit yeah you have but it's been great great for camera because i want to work on i want to start making every word mean something but i'll see dave dave have a conversation he did almost for like 846 i don't think 846 was a stand-up special right right i think that me personally I tell people that was the birth of a podcast the rhythm of it the fact that he wasn't going for a laugh and just a conversation right but I see him in the pocket and it's no urgency to get a laugh but then when it hits it hits hard that's funny because I was at when you know so like i don't think the magnitude of what the show is like

can be described but it's a big ad it's a big big it's a way bigger field than you probably think people are listening or thinking in their head what in the cornfield yeah the depth of all these people you know what i never really think about i've never been that far yeah yeah because you don't really you just don't think you look at the front, but if you look, it's like deep. Is it an acre of motherfuckers or two acres? I think it's two acres. Two acres. I think it's two acres. Everyone's socially distanced.

It's very organized. It's produced really well, but the magnitude. It's literally a fucking cornfield. It is. I never need to do that. I've never been to the back because when he first started it started with uh i think 80 people yeah i think he said 80 people and i think when he was talking to kevin he was saying it's like 600 now oh is it really yeah or could be or could be so 600 people that's even bigger than like the

comedy store main room or something like that. But everybody's distance, six feet for sure. They're not anywhere close. It's definitely six feet. The toughest part or the weirdest part, and it's like I feel comfortable on that stage now, but the interesting part is not seeing people laugh. Right, right. You know what I mean?

The face. And they all have masks on, so the mask is literally blocking the laughter I ripped so there's a level there's a level of rip with the motherfucker like fuck it you just want to get the laugh

yeah like I want to see your face but it's been everybody and everybody that's come from fucking Chris Rock he liked it so much he came back twice. Jon Stewart came back twice. It's going to be interesting to see David Letterman. It's going to be interesting to see where it goes.

That David Letterman was dope. For sure? Yeah. And the callback. You missed it. David Letterman did a callback on his joke. And it was like, it hit. Oh, amazing.

It was so dumb it was like it was everything about this summer I felt a sense of like it feels like one huge family right right that's what it feels like to me and even the people that come in right that you may not really know right it feels like one big family When Austin was here for a couple of weeks, when they say that phrase, it takes a village, people were so supportive. Not anybody. But Austin had a handful of new friends.

And their parents, like Naki, I got to shout out Naki. Naki was so helpful to me. With my son, when I had to go do shows she would take him and there was a couple nights that um she couldn't watch him because she was at the show and I and I didn't just want to put him you know in the care of somebody that know and fuck it I took him to the show right and that was a moment this little motherfucker Austin all week he told me I mean I say where are you he said I'm in Wallow Springs I'm in Willow Springs.

I'm in Willow Springs, Ohio. I'm in Yellow Springs. That's all he talking about is Yellow Springs. So I brought him on stage, right, because my son, if I'm ever performing, he is headed to that stage at some point. Right. He just start itching. You know, he practiced this little knock-knock joke, and I

put him on stage. I said, where are you? And the motherfucker just... What did he say? He just said, ha-ha-ha-ha. Yeah, he was like... And he was getting laughs off of ha-ha-ha-ha. Yeah, he was just laughing. And then he's a hack, too. He's a hack. Yo, he's like... He's doing internet jokes

and shit. Internet jokes. And whenever it doesn't... I was like, the go-to. I was like, where are you? Then I said, what's your favorite song? Old Town Road. And that's like, hey, I'm going to tell you. I want to say, motherfucker, you need a new song. Right.

But it was such a great feeling for him to be able to come in this bubble, to be able to play with some of the kids from Yellow Spring, to go on stage. It's a family vibe out here. It's a local community vibe. I've been cutting onions the whole time. Everybody knows I'm a river nigga now. Yeah.

And me and Austin went on the river like three or four times. Yeah, about four. And he was like, Daddy, I'm a river boy. And he made up a river song. He was paddling. It's just been the hardest thing was to see him leave, man. And like, you know, and starting goddamn kindergarten now, which I don't fucking like.

I don't like fucking online kindergarten. How was that dance class? didn't he have dance class in the morning he had dance class oh yeah he liked that he liked the dance part and they did today uh they did something virtual they were teaching them about uh uh practices when an earthquake happens wow right this is probably a table yeah and he's like this and he said he said make sure you got a table get really far under the table and if because of the ladder falling you're gone yo how you telling this classmates you're gone a kid not supposed to be saying that but it was so tough it was so tough because he came out here it was

just me him it was my his mom't here. He had the best time. He had the best time. I'm having the best time of my life. I was having the best time. Because the whole time I've been here, it's been a great experience. But I feel like in my life, the good things that happen, I want to share with him. Right. And it just didn't feel right.

I felt kind of fucked up. You can't stop having fun or your son could come out there and you can have fun and the day before he was gonna leave he's been he's a tough kid he was cool and then he was laying on my shoulders and he was looking sad i'm like what's wrong he said i'm sad i said why he said because i don't want to leave and i was like man y'all know i'm a river digger gangster Brooklyn all day every day shit just started flowing

but it was so dope to see the look on his face when he was reunited with his mom too that made me feel good I bet he was happy as someone who gets 15% off

of Hawthorne. You know what? I'm going to tell you something. Let me tell you something. And I was going to get to that. I was just trying to get the right transition. Right.

And I know, and I've said this before, a lot of podcasts they get sponsors and they don't believe in the product. When I first got introduced to Hawthorne, I didn't know what to think.

Right. I'm like, how are you going to take a too-many quiz and them give you a special scent that matches you? Or, for that matter, even smells good. I took the too-many test. Right. And I got the cologne. And I was like man this probably is whack right when i use it i was floored it smells so good it smells and not only

that but you have one and it's so funny because the one for play it's almost empty right the guy but to be fair you play when you work exactly when you play so but one matches you don't even know which one to use i don even know which one to use. I don't know which one to use. One of them matches for work and one of them matches for play. The play is down to like a month. I got like two more squirts of the play, but it's a great product. But you know what else?

They don't just do cologne as well because they do shampoos. I took the test too. They do shampoos. What am I going to do? But I'm saying I got the shampoo. Yeah, yeah. He stole my shampoo. They got body wash.

They got shampoo. I. He stole my shampoo. They got body wash. They got shampoo. I've used the body wash. Yeah. Everything is, you know, designed specially for. Did you freshly shave your head? Yes. A couple of days ago. Why?

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And another thing that's been so dope about this summer has been the fucking food experiences we have. Indeed. We had a cookout barbecue the other day, and it was Javanta's idea. She wanted some trini food. And the only reason I wanted to support that, because I know when women have good trini food,

they just start twerking for no reason. What's the name of that dance y'all be doing for Carnival what is it we wine and we yeah yeah you ever see it you want to see a trini chick give them some roti or some doubles yeah the roti the doubles was so good oh my god shout out to soca soca truck soca soca food truck so God. Shout out to Soka. Soka truck. Soka food truck. Soka food truck out of Dayton, Ohio. Yeah, you did a good job. Oh my God.

It was so delicious. But what is, how are we going to function after the summer is over? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I don't want to go back to LA. Nobody wants to go back. Everybody that comes to Yellow Springs, everybody says, I don't want to fucking go back to LA. Nobody wants to go back. Everybody that comes to Yellow Springs, everybody says, I don't want to fucking go back. And they even

re-invite themselves. They re-invite themselves. Let's make the commitment right now. We're Team Donnell Rawlingshow. We're going to buy an RV and we're going to go on the road and do social distance shows. We're going to keep it safe. We're not going to buy an RV.

Somebody's going to give us an RV. Oh, someone out there. We'll find a sponsor. We can do that. Give us an RV. We're going to get an RV. That'd be so dope though. We're going to hit the road. I like the idea of being able

to go to different places and experience what's going on in their culture and talking about it. It's a simple idea. We can do it. I just hope. I don't even.

When I tell you that I haven't really. I don't know what. It's a simple idea. We can do it. I just hope. I don't even, when I tell you that I haven't really, I don't know what the, I know this sounds crazy. I don't know what's going on in the regular world. The only information, news I'm getting right now is from social media. Here in the bed and breakfast spot, there's no TVs.

Right, there's nothing. And barely Wi-Fi. What is, you just came from the other side into the bubble. What's going on now? There's an election coming up that's going crazy. Scaring the shit out of people. Yeah, people are going crazy.

The president is undermining the election with the post office. He's trying to dismantle the post office. He's successfully dismantling the post office. What did he do? He's removing sorting machines. Yeah. He's literally, they're removing them. Yeah, they're pretending like they're trying to revamp.

They're like saying that they're going to save the post office billions in the long run. But they're doing it right before an election. So they're like, yeah, we're just going to take all the old shit out and replace it with new stuff. But meanwhile, everyone's trying to vote by mail because of this pandemic. And so the president's online tweeting, literally getting his tweets blocked by Twitter because he's putting out false information. Right, as he always does. So what is Kanye West doing now? Kanye West is on the ballot in a bunch of states. I thought he took himself home.

No, I thought they voted against him in Wisconsin. In many states, he's on the ballot. Not all 50, but I saw a list of i think at least how does that work if you're not on all the ballots then if you're not on the ballots then you're not legally you can run but you're you're not i mean obviously you're not gonna win i don't know what kind of gimmick it would be in that case i mean he's already admitted in an interview that he's he's fine with taking votes away from Joe Biden, so conspiracy theorists believe that as a favor to the president,

he's running for president. Like, literally just to take votes away from Joe Biden. But I don't believe that he'll take a lot of votes away from Joe Biden because his platform is, like, more Republican than anything. He's anti-abortion. Does Donald Trump win this fall?

He's going to win. If he does, I personally believe that, you know, if he suppresses the vote enough, he'll win. If he does, I personally believe that, you know, he's if he suppresses the vote enough, he'll win. But if he wins, I'm going back to Trinidad. You know, polls show that, you know, not to be too boring, but it seems like Americans really are not fucking happy with it, with the way he's handling this pandemic. But I don't know about that, because being out here in Ohio, these no no ass motherfucker, no mask wearing motherfuckers seem happy as shit. Well, I mean, he's going to have his small he's gonna have his you know diehards you know the cult followers that are just you know like he said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and they're still

gonna vote for him he's gonna have those people but you know i i believe that he's lost some of his main base and he hasn't i don't feel like he's gained new people no one was like i voted for hillary i agree with you. That's what I thought. I think Trump did a great job. I'm going to vote for him. I don't think he's. And that's what when he first got elected, I was like, I didn't think that he could extend his base. Like I said, I think the hardcore people that are with him are with him.

Exactly. But I thought that on the other side, on the Democrats, that if somebody was electric or something that could make, could excite. And I think the difference is going to be younger people. Speaking of which. I don't know if Joe Biden. Do you think Kamala and Joe Biden are going to fulfill the promises of two black people? I mean, I don't think even two black people could fulfill the promises of two black people. No politicians can officially fulfill their promises.

That's just politics but i think they'll be i think they'll be fulfilling promises better than the person we have now that's just my opinion you know that issue but but i just want to say this i want to give you a shout out donnell because you had someone what i just didn't drop a bomb in a while good you had somebody yeah drop a bomb for andrew yang andrew yang oh yeah somebody, yeah, drop a bomb for Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang. Oh yeah, that was fun. Andrew Yang.

He came through. Yo, Andrew Yang's been hanging out. It's just interesting because we helped with, we tripped, we tried with this campaign. Dave and I,

we did some shows in Charlotte to help promote this campaign. It is so weird that I threw a goddamn house party and then I see Andrew Yang rolling up, eating the food, talking about,

what up, Donnell? In the middle of the dance floornell in the middle of the dance floor in the middle of the dance floor I was watching the show in the little VIP tent off to the side and I'm like

he had the mask on and everything I texted Donnell yo is that Andrew Yang no he said he said I think it was probably I was like he said I think the dude looked like Andrew Yang

I was like then it probably was Andrew Yang I was like yeah it makes sense and then yeah the next thing you know and I told Donnell and he said yeah we're having a party after the after the show we're gonna make a bunch of food i go all right well if andrew yang shows up at your party you're official so and guess what the motherfuckers showed up everybody showed up to the party fucking quest love i think he would have been electric you know i think he would have been

like good for the youth and and he's young i just think we're not ready for nah we're not president named yang you know what i'm saying no disrespect i think he's a great guy i like his policies and ideas especially for people being able to get make money off of their content on like right the way he the plan he had for people to get paid for their information was dope universal it was. Universal basic income. Yeah, that's almost something like a stimulus situation, right? It is. It is exactly a stimulus situation. Yeah, exactly.

So what was his idea for that? Everyone gets $1,000, period. Yeah. Recurring, recurring. Every month. Every month? Every month. How did that guy lose?

Yo, that's crazy. How did he lose? Yeah, a lot of black people start fucking with him on that shit. So they like a G. Who wouldn't know? I mean, it seems like a little bit reparations-y. I mean, $1,000 isn't enough. Okay, I'll break it down to simple.

That's what I want to do. How would he affect that? How would he do it? Yeah, I was going to say, this is the plan. The plan is because the future is going to be automation. And we know that robots are going gonna be doing a lot of jobs. So the whole fear of a robot replacing humans shouldn't really be a reality.

What we should be thinking of is more like a utopian world. The companies are now gonna just pay less money because they're gonna buy the robots and then they're not gonna have to pay for staff and all that stuff. So forever, the robot can work at night. The robot can work on Sunday. There's no fucking bitching, no crying.

The robot doesn't get pregnant. You can fuck a robot. robot doesn't get pregnant and they got robots you can fuck and fuck sex robots for sure no yeah whitney made one remember you can see that and um so anyway the point is now you tax these companies that use the robots they pay they're gonna pay more in taxes amazon they barely get taxed right now apple barely gets taxed right now. Apple barely gets taxed right now. All these companies that we're working with now, they're going with the trickle down theory. Like okay, you don't pay us taxes, so you keep all that revenue, so you can keep investing your money,

making businesses, creating jobs, and it's really not, it's not working. You know what I mean? It's not working. It's like, they're not, billionaires, if I give a billionaire $1,000 a month, what's he gonna do? He's gonna put his $1,000 in the bank and be like, cool, fuck off. I give like a regular me $1,000 a month, I spend it instantly.

Oh, motherfucker. And do that in the black community. You know what I mean? Yo, them Jordans going to be off the hook. Right. It will probably still be people being wasteful. But it would still help. But it stimulates the economy.

The money goes into the economy. You know what I mean? Like but it stimulates the economy the money goes into the economy you know what i mean like it goes out into the economy so you know he he has a platform i asked him that at the party i was like you know fuck it i know you're over here eating chicken and stuff like that and and yucca yucca fries right and doubles like that yucca yucca fries but i was like i'm curious man how how would it happen do you take money from the from the military you ask them that question yeah i really want to know and he said yeah you know he told me you tax the big tech companies that's the start and then you roll back military you know we don't need to be spending 150 trillion dollars on the military and you scale back the police and all that shit

you know it's not that crazy it really isn't that crazy well how could it affect that well it didn't happen no it didn't happen. No, it didn't happen. Oh, he wouldn't be in Yellow Springs eating yucca fries and shit. Yeah, how's that campaign doing? Oh, I'm at Donnell's house party in Yellow Springs. If that answers your question. So what does it look like, Yang? Over here having some yucca fries with Donnell and Javante

about to hit this fucking river with the river, niggas? Yeah, it's going to be, I'm telling you, I've been, this bubble, I've really been out of touch. Going back to L.A., it's going to be weird. Being in traffic is going to be weird. Oh, I do not look forward to traffic. Having to be, not being the only person on the road is going to be weird. Yeah. Not hearing crickets is going to be weird.

Frogs and. Cicadas. Yep. I'm coming right back, though. Yeah. I'm coming right fucking back. I already changed my ticket, so I'm not even going back to L.A. I'm good.

Yeah. Derry was like, he'd been like a fucking kid, man. He's like, dude, I'll sleep out on the grass. I'm a nature motherfucker I was born to do this But you know what else is crazy Like you know We're around a lot

Like you're around a lot of great people I'm around you So I get to be around a lot of great people You know A lot of names get dropped A lot of people swing by Kevin Hart was there Yada yada

But I was at the shack After one of the shows And I turned around And I went Diamond D No way Oh yeah Yeah Diamond D, no way! Yeah, Diamond D, he just like his third time. Yeah, he came back.

He fronted on his door, he's supposed to DJ at the party and shit, then he turned diva. I think he saw me, I think he saw me, like and I was fanning out. So I was like, yo, I gotta, you know. Oh, you ruined our DJ set. I ruined it. No, but Static, Static, other DJ, what's his name?

Static Selector. Static Selector, Kilted. He came through, yeah. Fucking Press Love. Press Love. That's him. That was fun. And nobody, like, the dope thing about it is, like, it's no egos.

No. It's everybody. And I'm going to tell you, it could be overwhelming. Because after a while, me and Javanta have had our moments. We've had our fights. And I've chalked most of it up to, like, we have been around each other for a long time. You know? But for the most part, everybody here is, like, so helpful to each other.

And just it feels like they're so grateful just to be able to hug. Yeah, hug, interact. I saw a goddamn two orgies down at the river the other day. Motherfuckers got that negative test. It was like, yo, we doing something doing something not it's just a joke but it's been just so beautiful just seeing how people come together and just to fucking i mean want to have a good time it's a shame that that we don't we as a society we don't have like a daily test that people could have like like when you have diabetes it's expensive right it is now yeah still expensive yeah they're very expensive but it's a shame that

they're not cheaper you know but eventually it's going to turn into that eventually it will you know because if it gets to the point where everyone has to get a test every time or every week or whatever that's what we're going to do as a society we'll make it work we had when we had the party you know i had those concerns because you know we know our group and we have the bands but um that's the next thing i know i look up and the nurse pulls up yeah and has the goddamn covid test at the party that's some gangster shit right there son that was dope Someone had showed up They weren't tested

And they were standing outside Trying to get in I didn't realize they were friends with Dave Because I was one of the first people to see them And I was like oh my god And they had masks on And they were outside But I had seen them and I was like oh my god

What do I do do I snitch Of course you snitch? I gotta snitch. Of course you snitch. You're white, of course you snitch. Duh, what took you? I called 911, I was like, hello? What took you so long? But the day before, we had another get together

and the first time we had security was here and we had some bands because the shack has got overwhelming. A lot of people go there. And we had bands. And then people started coming here. And security was like, is he okay? Is he okay? I was like, all right, maybe we don't worry about the fucking fruit-flavored band.

I said, but the motherfuckers better have their motherfucking COVID bands. I was like, focus on that one. The one for the shack. Because I've been coordinating the dinners and a little you know the after set so the idea was to go to where we normally go you know and if it gets that gets too crowded have an overflow come over here right and which would give me because we literally after the show we had to get the barbecue grill popping and everything we was like i was like javante we right out of here we soon as the show is over so i thought yeah i thought we were gonna go to the thing first and then come so you'd have enough time to like get prepared but everyone came straight

here everybody i was like i'm saying i'm saying we like blowing on the coals and shit and i see a couple people and it's just like cars just up coming and coming I'm like oh shit say now you didn't tell me this but we worked it out another example like we had people that were working on a food my friend chef Gerald some right I want to shout him out he killed world-class we had this awesome dinner and he just kept pitching in he was helping Nikki on the food truck he helped with the formal dinner we had. And then that night he helped. He was just, he was awesome.

Big shout out to him. And this motherfucker, the only nigga I know to be walking around with caviar. Yo, this motherfucker. And I ain't talking about no hot caviar. I forget the name of this company. Do you remember? Premier or something. No.

Oh, man. I can't remember. It's in the fridge downstairs. But this motherfucker's going around giving motherfuckers caviar bumps we got a toast of doing caviar he was all about that he's like you know this is 121 grams

he act like he was a drug dealer in a god damn party but when we were that night particularly this is why I gotta shout out Nikki, Chef Nikki and her crew because we got overwhelmed I was like I don't know if we're going to have enough food

and she's got a food truck she always she said I got two pans of mac I still got the salmon and she wouldn't get and it's just like it all came together and we did miss a beat what we had to do was get people drunk first people was fucking right off the field they was hungry

and they saw that it wasn't no food ready so they started drinking they started dancing and then everything started flowing then it was so well you killed it there was so much food there was so much there was yeah people were like nervous like because everyone started the line up at once when they started to serve the food and people were like i don't know maybe i'm not going to eat and then as soon as the line was done it was like there was three times as much food back up there, doubling up on, you know what I mean? We couldn't stop. What time did we start?

Like 5 in the morning? I think 3. Well, the show ended at like 1, 1 a.m. They literally turned the lights off on Kevin Hart. Yeah, you guys went on for long, like 5. I think the curfew is 12.30. No, I think the curfew is 12. And I thought it was like a power outage or something.

I didn't realize that whatever. I don't know if it's the. Oh, so the venue did take it off? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. They was like. They was like. I didn't know that.

Yeah, Kevin was doing it. Kevin was doing like a chunk. Yeah, he was on a big set. And it was dope. And it was killing. Nobody wanted to stop it that was a tough spot oh my god for him yeah yeah but like that's this that's the superstar power oh he had the power man yeah you know like see it you've seen it they wanted to see him i mean like

yeah everybody did a great job in their own right definitely but to go that late and three hours show into a outdoor show. There was rappers. There was a poet. Hell yeah, a poet. They had a poet, motherfucker. They had a poet. A unicycle, motherfucker. They had everything.

Amir. Amir Suleiman. He killed it. Oh, he killed it. Every time. But it's so weird. You see this big black dude giving his Black Lives Matter fucking poem.

And them white people looking like, we are not here for that. Teach us more. And then the weird thing about that is having to come to follow it. Follow that energy.

Like them motherfuckers be scared as shit. They like. I know. I literally like almost cry every single time he does that poem. Are you not entertained?

You did the right thing, though. I flipped it. Yeah, you brought it back. I have fun with it. You had to give it a call back. Yeah, because when I first started, not when I first started, when I first moved from Washington, D.C. to New York,

when I couldn't get stage time in any clubs in the city, I would sign up at open mic nights, poetry open mic nights. Poetry open mic nights. Slam poetry nights. As if I was a poet. And then once they called my name, I would go up there and I would fucking do a fake ass poem. And then they would start laughing

and then I would just start doing my set. Did you ever do your set in a cadence? I thought about that. I thought about that. That's something I want to try. Another thing I want to try, I know this sounds crazy, I want to try to because it feels like

every comedian wants to be a rapper and every rapper wants to be a comedian. I want to get some beats and just like talk. You know what I mean? Do a joke or take the premise and just see if I can get the rhythm to flow that.

That's something I always want to do. I'm going to take all these goddamn producers out here. I should be able to get some beats. I didn't know that motherfucking Issa was that nice with the beats. Oh, yeah? It's really good. Yeah, yeah. It's good.

Shout out to Issa. There's a lot of creative people out here. I feel like that's one of the main reasons I'm so happy is to be surrounded by creative people like meeting so many not so many it's a small crew but just meeting like fred that's the dope thing everybody plays a part and everybody continued to like fred fred is a hard-working motherfucker he still does his shows And everybody Anytime like Federico

We need a mic You need a mic Like It's gonna be So helpful And talented This is gonna be I'm telling you

This will be the new wave Yeah Of how 100% How creatives come together Only thing they gotta do Is get some goddamn High speed internet

In this goddamn mill man This place is haunted That's why It's the ghost stifling our wifi it's such a good testament to Dave's personality

and his work ethic and it's his fruit basically like cause when you go in that shack you know he basically built his you know his space out

it's like I said it was like being in his soul you know all the photos it is it's a special everyone and it's a little small spot.

Everyone goes. Everyone goes in the fields. Feels good. And he built that spot. So he wouldn't conjugate in his house that much. Right. Because that motherfucker have after parties. He would have them every goddamn day.

Yeah. Yeah. Elaine. That's a smart move. Elaine probably like, get that shit down the road. I'll fix you. I'll build a shack and I'll never come home. And he got his little bubble, like a little yurt in the back of it.

So he's got the shack and then like another like little bubble. Yeah, the dome. Like a dome. But another thing that I've noticed and like, and that thing I appreciate is how many people are bringing their entire families out here. Right, right. Like when we went on the river today to see those kids on the water. Oh, it was great. And it was like there's, man, I know that sounds crazy, but I've really fallen in love or back in love with nature.

Are you going to cry, Donnell? No, I don't cry. I'm a gangster. I cry. The only time I cry is when you're mad at me. I just do it for you. And then you stink. We get in an argument.

I already know what's going to happen. She's going to want to eat sooner or later. That's all it is. All you got to do is fry some bacon. I just do it And then you stink We get in an argument I already know What's gonna happen She gonna wanna eat Sooner or later That's all it is All you gotta do is All you gotta do is Fry some bacon And she'll get over it

So But I'm glad that you're here I'm glad you got to Experience this The whole team Has been out here And I was like

I know we gotta get them out here And then we was getting Close to the end of it Is that Look we got What is that That's nature yo nature don't have a fucking horn son i think carla they got the truck what let me see oh what are we at we're good

yeah we are um this is very interesting this was the podcast about nothing completely we got uh giovanna i knew she was gonna be ready to get up because she didn't get her perfect lighting poster girl oh that's the shot that wide that that's how we're gonna i think i think i think we got the shot that's right in hollywood she was a poster girl now she is miss nature and showing the world those cakes this is the donna rollins show we want to thank hawthorne don't forget to go to hawthorne.co take the two minute quiz get two colognes one work one play have a good time with it donna rollins and that is the end of the donna rollins show in yellow springs now, good day! Fuck it!

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